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Below is a screenshot from the Covid-19 Coronavirus tests article. It is sorted by tests per million people with the most tests per million on top.  Unfortunately, it is already dated because the Coronavirus-19 pandemic is evolving so rapidly, but it gives a sense of how little testing is happening in the United States – apart from Washington State.  The US is so far behind that it would barely fit on the bottom line of the screen shot.

It looks like Donald Trump should have put his Slovenian wife, Melania, in charge of the situation, instead of pharmaceutical-biotech executives and VP Pence. Slovenia is doing one of the most thorough testing jobs.  Only some regions of Italy, South Korea, and Iceland are testing more than Slovenia. The Bible says seek and ye shall find, but Trump’s testing policy has been don’t seek so you don’t find. The Bible says knock and the door shall be opened, but Trump slammed the door in the face of the World Health Organization that offered a test months ago. The US had better never again elect a fatalistic Calvinist President, like Trump, especially not one advised by former pharmaceutical-biotech executives.

Screen shot excerpted from COVID-19 testing wikipedia article edited on 16 March 2020, at 03:30 (UTC).
See the entire article and updates here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
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Countries that are doing less per capita testing than the United States, as listed in the article:
Vietnam
Turkey
Philippines
South Africa
India
Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy

Not all US states give the numbers tested, either, so we don’t even have an idea of how many were tested vs found positive. Unfortunately, Italy was slow to take action, possibly because of Fashion Week and Carnival. As a result, Italy will never be the same. Most countries have been too slow. The US failed to take action promptly, though some US States took action. The US, or parts of the US, could endure a fate similar to that of Italy.

Has links to State Depts of Public Health: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/additional-recall-links/state-departments-of-public-health/ct_index

March 18, 2020 update note: The testing and rankings for testing have changed a lot in only two days. The latest can be seen at the links. However, the screen shot, above, remains a sort of time capsule of countries being dangerously slow in testing.